Section 8: Soliciting or accepting advantage.

(1) Any public officer who solicits or accepts any advantage as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise onaccount of his— a. performing or abstaining from performing or having performed or abstained from performing any act in his capacity as a public officer; b. expediting, delaying, hindering or preventing or having expedited, delayed, hindered or prevented, the performance of an act, whether by himself or by any other public officer in his capacity as a public officer; or c. assisting, favouring, hindering or delaying or having assisted, favoured, hindered or delayed, any person in the transaction of any business with a public body; (2) Any public officer, who solicits or without the general or special permission of the President, accepts any advantage, is guilty of an offence and shall, upon summary conviction be sentenced to a fine not exceeding one million leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment. (3) The general permission of the President is deemed to have been granted for the acceptance of gifts of a customary nature by Paramount Chiefs. (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), a gift is not of a customary nature unless given in circumstances recognised as appropriate by custom.